On a beautiful, gusty day in Budapest, from the Margaret Bridge over the Danube, I am filled with immense gratitude to Hungarians for reclaiming their democracy nearly two weeks ago. Heading into my birthday weekend, I am humbled to have been witness to this moment in history. ✨

Cabinet Office permanent secretary Cat Little begins her appearance at the foreign affairs committee by saying she had no involvement with the Mandelson affair before the humble address, and has nothing day-to-day to do with UK Security Vetting. ie - don't get your hopes up for news.

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

The Harbour (Talkabout the Beach, 1975) Artist: Harry Wingfield

A Pair of Shoes - 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13891

i'm sure your cat is alright too, but mine plucks blooms from the camellia and lays them at my feet

ground.news/article/the-... The Onion won the IP known as InfoWars when it was auctioned off to pay the Sandy Hook families that Alex Jones TERRORIZED after their children were massacred. Alex Jones sued to stop the Onion from taking InfoWars. He lost. 🤣 The NEW InfoWars will be a Satire Site. 😂

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Got our solar panels installed this AM. They came at 8:30am and we're gone by 1:30pm. 13 panels and 10kwh battery. We can't export to the grid yet (the network operator has been flooded with new requests) but we charged our car with the sun this afternoon. Great feeling, strongly recommend.

The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.” This is why we should fund science. 🧪

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

Whoa you sure get blocked a lot on this site when you post stuff like setting fire to synagogues is bad.

Really important investigation by Sunday Times Reform dragged into tax row by Richard Tice’s unpaid £100,000 www.thetimes.com/article/9ed8...

“I’ll be voting for Reform - it can’t get any worse” Oh it really can. You put a bunch of corrupt, racist, incompetent, lying Trumpists in charge and things will get very much worse. Potholes and empty shops will feel unimportant compared to the loss of the NHS, social care and a torched economy.

This. They're moving toward antivirals that kill multiple viruses with mRNA. Cancer cures. And they don't have to poison my neighbors to do any of that.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.

Kae Tempest on creativity and his gender transition: ‘I’m just glad to be alive’

Indeed—Elect more women!

If you weren't thinking this all along, I question your judgement.

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American: Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation. I've told my family to stay away. Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙 news.sky.com/story/englan...

We are living in a timeline so dumb it's exhausting.

Just sayin........

DON'T COME HERE.

 They kidnap people off the streets & throw them in filthy holes. They don’t care who you are.

 They don't care if you're white, either, if you think that'll save you.

 They have quotas. (It’s all about money.) THE US IS NOT SAFE.

 STAY AWAY. news.sky.com/story/englan...

When my keybeard was brokne Werw you thwre? Werw you thwre? When my keybeard was brokne Werw you thwre?

"These days, I’m feeling more aligned with Catholicism than I have since my first communion. I’m not alone in that," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.

Well-played, @zeit

Just a reminder that racism, hate and misogyny, are the main reasons why we don't have a Kamala Harris or Hillary Clinton Presidency.

DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states. DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand. My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases. DOJ is now 0-5. My firm is 5-0. Lesson: When we fight we win.

BBC today correct Nigel Farage's false claim to Nick Robinson on Political Thinking (13th February 2026) that net migration was only down due to an "exodus" of people leaving the UK since 90% of net migration fall was a fall in immigration. After my 3rd complaint! www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...

God wants you to stop calling yourself a Christian, stat #USpol

Just TWO HUNDRED days until the Nov 3 Midterm Elections!!!

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Great to see this from Paul Keating. Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating has accused Angus Taylor of cowardice and racism over his plans to overhaul the nation’s migration system, saying the Liberal Party is simply copying the “dumb bigotry” of Pauline Hanson. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

With news this week that the UK have signed up to allow students to take part in Erasmus+ from 2027, here are six benefits of the European exchange scheme

SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

Edinburgh Castle and Rainbow :) #moody #urbanphotography #photography #edinburgh #scotland

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

I see Farage is missing from PMQs again. Just what does he do for his tax funded MPs salary? #pmqs

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

To whoever thought it was fun to smash beer bottles on the path to the beach, fuck you.